100% Disk Usage

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Hi,

I have been asked to fix a laptop which apparently had a virus but upon booting into windows (took 5 mins) you could see it was the original install from about 5 years ago and gathered a lot of **** so persuaded the owner a clean install is best and to upgrade to w10.

Have done a clean install and noticed the disk usage is 100% resulting in a slow machine. This is a clean install with noting yet installed, task manager doesn't show any programme with a high usage.

Spec
T4400 cpu 2.2ghz
4gb ram
Samsung 240gb HD (guessing 5400rpm)

Obviously would be best to install a SSD but anything I could try before recommending to upgrade the hard drive?

Thanks.
 
did you drop win 10 on direct or upgrade from an older OS?
I had a problem with an older system(mum's) that was force upgraded by Microsoft. i didnt look at with the problem was on her system but after the upgrade the system would hang on windows loading screen and if it did load it was VERY slow. in the end i did a fresh install from usb and it was fine.

you can get the usb too from microsoft and id the system as been upgraded you will not need product key it will auto register.

if you upgrade, windows saves you old file system so you will need to run dick clean up tool. but even then windows saves part of your drive for a backup registry, if you fresh install this dose not happen
 
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deano-5 said:
Defrag

Does the disk usage reduce if you leave it idling for 10 mins?
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disk usage is the same after 30 mins.

P4Clock said:
did you drop win 10 on direct or upgrade from an older OS?
I had a problem with an older system(mum's) that was force upgraded by Microsoft. i didnt look at with the problem was on her system but after the upgrade the system would hang on windows loading screen and if it did load it was VERY slow. in the end i did a fresh install from usb and it was fine.

you can get the usb too from microsoft and id the system as been upgraded you will not need product key it will auto register.

if you upgrade, windows saves you old file system so you will need to run dick clean up tool. but even then windows saves part of your drive for a backup registry, if you fresh install this dose not happen
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I did a clean install of w10 but forgot to activate the upgrade so had to do a clean w7 install and run the upgrade to w10 ... I ran disk cleanup and removed the old windows files (fresh w7 install)
I'll reinstall w10 this afternoon and see how it goes.

Thanks for the help.
 
Had the same issue when I upgraded my girlfriends laptop from 7 to 10. HDD usage would just sit at 100% making the system very slow. It seems to be a bit of a win 10 issue, if you Google, there's lots of things you can try. Nothing worked for me though.
 
Have just reinstalled windows 10 on a spare SSD i have and the Disk usage averages around 20%.

Ran HDTune on the original hard drive and there are 2 errors, "Calibration Retry Count" which keeps changing between 100 & 252. The second is "Current Pending Sector".

Googling the errors suggests the errors are due to the laptop not being shutdown properly rather than the Hard Drive failing?
 
Jamesyboyjim said:
Had the same issue when I upgraded my girlfriends laptop from 7 to 10. HDD usage would just sit at 100% making the system very slow. It seems to be a bit of a win 10 issue, if you Google, there's lots of things you can try. Nothing worked for me though.
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I had this too. I tried a lot of formatting checking /disabling services etc etc never got to bottom of it. Eventually dropped a 120gb ssd in there so the usage is still there but the ssd has ample spare speed to keep it nippy.
 
thanks guys, owner collected the laptop this evening and didn't want to replace the drive whilst it is still working.

All updates were installed and no Anti Virus was installed at the time.
 
Start the machine in diagnostics startup and see if the disk usage is still the same.

Process explorer from tech net could help you track it down.

I've seen the update service and indexing cause this issue.
 
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